02/14/2018 - Board of Education Regular Meeting

001Well, good evening and welcome to the St. Valentine's Day edition of the St. Vrain Valley School Board. Thank you all for being here this evening. It feels like, to have all these students here, feels like a special Valentine's gift to us and in return our gift to you will be that we'll keep our board reports short. So with that, if you would please join us in saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of Allegiance. You know what, that that really is marvelous to hear all those young voices. That just, it's thank you all for being here. So Barb, would you please call the roll? Mr. Aarons? Here. Dr. Marder? Here. Ms. Pierce? Here. Mrs. Ragland? Here. Ms. Segrist? Here. Mrs. Siscoe is absent. Mr. Smith? And I want to point out that Lena is here as

002our student advisory representative. Would you introduce yourself please? I'm a senior at Skyline High School. You're all pretty familiar faces so hello again. Well thank you for being here and Lena as usual I would invite you as we go through the agenda if you have any questions or comments please feel free to participate because that's really why we wanted you to be here. Okay? All right, excellent. Thank you. And Barb, did we have any changes to the agenda? We did not and we have no visitors signed up. No visitors. All right, well what I will do is a couple of suggestions. One, I'd like to suggest that we move our reports up particularly the Skyline High School Student Advisory Council feeder report. We'll move that up before the board reports and so that you guys

003can can get out of here and do your homework but first let me let me ask our assistant superintendent for HR. Ella, do you want to introduce our new hires before we get down into the before we get down into the consent items? I'd like to call Damon Brown up. I was gonna say Samuel. Damon Brown, as you know, Damon and I have worked closely together for the past few years and I am retiring at the end of this year and so we had to find a replacement and so I'm really happy to say that Damon is a great fit for HR. He knows the department. He knows the people there and he's done it in various other districts as well in Mapleton and so he's just gonna be a great addition and I'm glad

004that I'm gonna get to work with him until the end of June and really make a smooth transition and so I mean I couldn't be happier as the person taking my place so I'm really grateful to that and I wish him the best and you want to say a few words? Only that I'm just humbled and honored by the opportunity to fill this role. It's a it's a great one. It's an important one for the school district and a lot of our a lot of our investment is in people and we're a people business so I look forward to being one of the people that supports that part of our work so thank you. All right so the next one is also a familiar face Mr. Brian Krause. So Brian's been with us for the

005last two years as student services executive director. He came from Jefferson County where he did the same similar job and it feels like he's been with us a lot longer than two years just because of everything that he's done for the district. One in particular is he's really changed revamped the threat assessments and we really have a quicker turnover. We feel that our kids are in a safer better place because of that and so I just want to thank him for that and I'm just really glad that he's one going to be one of the area assistant soups that will be working directly with HR. So Brian Krause. Thank you Ella. I just want to say thank you for the opportunity I feel blessed to be in the school district and look forward to working

006with the schools and the principals more closely and to be part of a such a strong team is an honor so thank you. Very good. Thank you. All right and my last one is Johnny Terrell he's coming from Adams 12 and actually you know it was after we hired Brian it was where are we gonna find someone to fit the shoes of Brian Krause? Here he is. So we interviewed Johnny and we thought wow he's doing the exact same job in Adams 12 that Brian Krause is doing here for us and when we interviewed him I can tell you he's known as coach T and I was so drawn into his interview I mean I was like one of those players that put me in coach I'm ready to go and I can see why

007he's called coach T really because he was just that inspirational just positive when we interviewed him and he you know any interaction that I have with him he's just really positive and so just his background I know he'll do great things and he was recognized when he was a principal at Thornton High School he did a lot of great things in Thornton got kids the graduation rate to go up and so he was nationally recognized for that and so we're just very fortunate that he's able to join us as well so Johnny Terrell and I know he has some guests with him. And like Dame and I am truly humbled by this opportunity to serve in our St. Brandon Valley School District and so on behalf of my wonderful family here my wife Tanya Terrell

008we're a package deal and my daughter my youngest daughter Nia Terrell and my oldest goes to the University of Colorado at Boulder very proud to say that I know we have some CSU alums in here that's a nice place also it's a great school but but I would be remiss if I did not say that every single person that I've met and the St. Brandon Valley School District through this process has literally kept their word to the T to the letter and I've been in education for 22 years and I have never seen a group of people who represent St. Brandon Valley School District keep their word I mean to the date that they were going to call you anything that needed to be corrected was corrected right away and that's a really a testament

009to the leadership before me here that's a testament to the culture and the climate represented here in St. Brandon Valley School District and most importantly the character that these individuals have shown I really appreciate that because all we have is our word at the end of the day and so I thank you I'm humbled and I look forward to serving the students and the family of St. Brandon Valley School District Johnny thank you thank you very much for those comments we really appreciate it and we welcome you and Brian and congratulate and I would and want to point out that we do this because although we approve the hirees really this board only has one employee the the board of the board of the school board hires the superintendent and it's the superintendent's job then

010to pick all the folks that he does and so but please know that you have this board's 100% support and as do the rest of the staff we really appreciate it done yeah yeah I turn it on then I turn it off but I was visiting with your former superintendent and he said I have a bone to pick with you you took one of our best so he was just glowing in his recommendation and then I was also at a another luncheon and ran into a couple of colleagues of yours that are one was the deputy superintendent one and came right up to me and said the exact same thing and just have heard nothing but glowing glowing remarks I also know that you had had an opportunity to work with Jackie Capuchin and one

011of the things that Jackie had said earlier on is I know this gentleman and we have to we have to hire him he's a superstar so thank you for making the choice to come and join our team and to your family thank you for joining st. brain we look forward to seeing more of you so thanks a lot all right very and down when you go to case meetings do you blame hiring away all these people on HR people or do you take you take all right all right well with that then we'd like to jump to agenda item 6 with 6.1 which would be the skyline high school student advisory feeder report all right it's my pleasure to bring Heidi ringer up who is the principal of skyline high she'll kick off the presentation

012and I would say nothing gets us more grounded in our mission than to hear directly from students and I believe you're going to hear from students and from every one of the schools in our skyline feeder so they're remark there's remarkable work happening there and I'm just really honored to work with this feeder system so Heidi good evening everyone thank you for having us here tonight it's really a pleasure to work in this feeder and I think it's because we have such amazing principals that I work with and their students that they have and I think one thing that we all have in common beyond stem beyond the curriculum is that we are a community we are really a skyline feeder community and I think that's really important to us you know I saw these

013people hugging their former principals or teachers and so many of our kids want to go back to their elementary and do a graduation walk so it's really important that we are together as a feeder and so I'm really proud to be at skyline and to see all of these kids come through so it's really it's it's gonna be great to hear from all of them tonight so you see how we all fit together and that's really the theme of what my student advisory group put together with Lena Kenny Kenny Haley and Diego the idea was that we weren't gonna do a presentation via technology we wanted to hear from our kids about how we all fit together and how those puzzle pieces work so you're gonna get a chance to look at the puzzle pieces

014from every school and hear our students talk so in addition to the community I have my own two little children here tonight so they're a little awestruck they thought they were going to Heidi's school not the board meeting so anyway but thank you for having us and thank you for supporting our feeder always we truly feel that you support everything we do in the skyline feeder with all that we have going on so thank you very much for all of that I'm gonna turn it over to Lena right now who's gonna describe the process and we're gonna hear from our kids thank you good evening I am Jill Fuller I am the principal of Rocky Mountain Elementary and tonight I am excited to introduce you Haley and Jesus to you good evening my name is

015Haley Soto Pulido I am a 5th grade student at Rocky Mountain Elementary good evening my name is Jesus Rio Cardoza I am a 4th grader student at Rocky Mountain tonight we want to tell you about the blender library project at Rocky Mountain in less than one year our traditional library has been transitioned to a blended library we now call this space the Iraq zone the purpose of the blended library at Rocky Mountain is to engage students in learning opportunities that value our unique ideas and recognize our diversity as learners and thinkers in the Iraq zone our learning opportunities are endless every week every grade level spends one hour in the Iraq zone our schools our schools right librarian computer tech and STEM coordinator work together to create experiences for students that allow us to be

016risk takers thinkers leaders and creators the activities are both engaging and innovative like a traditional library we still read and check out books but our learning experiences in the Iraq zone also provide opportunities to use technology and engage in design thinking challenges our imaginations are also key as we explore new ideas and create new things some of our favorite activities are coding using beach box programming robots the cubelets engineering design challenges and cutting up with a great book on a brand new bean bags that occurred to me after I spoke I'm Audrey Siebold and I'm the principal of Columbine Elementary and with me tonight representing Columbine I have Jonathan Sanchez Alia Bonilla Deja Bonilla Victor Jimenez Angela Marquez and Serenity McCoy our puzzle piece shows what is most important to us our students at Columbine

017is important that every student has an opportunity to grow and learn Columbine Elementary welcomes any type of student people are nice to each other the teachers are always focused on you and it's very comforting when you walk into Columbine we have really fun after-school programs too like basketball robotics dance calf crafter noon and Friday fun our vex robotics team had another amazing year we participated in the tournaments at Northridge LMS elementary and Westview middle school and we hosted a tournament last weekend we have learned to work hard and never give up even when we're frustrated students also learn no also explore the world through stem and design thinking we have opportunities to pursue our own interest in genius our projects we all agree that we love and know all of the different projects that we

018work on a school I like to be a veterinarian I'm learning about animals in science and I might have to build prototypes or work with other veterinarians to help animals please stop by Columbine to see our students in action you'll be amazed Columbine is getting ready for our future I hope to be a doctor learning about the body systems right now is awesome and will help prepare me for this career it also helps that our teachers coaches to never give up well done guys that was terrific hi I'm Amber Marsalik the principal at Alpine Elementary and here phenomenal students from Alpine hi my name is will this is Isabella and Amelia we're students at Alpine Elementary at Alpine students have many opportunities to join events and programs that create relationships and student teacher and community

019connections from media club and robotics to running club and allegory acquire to the annual fund run in IB nights teachers in the community come together to create lifelong relationships Alpine is an international baccalaureate school IB students are encouraged to think independently become aware of the community and to take action that demonstrates socially responsible attitudes one element of IB is exhibition an in-depth collaborative inquiry that enables students to explore multiple perspectives and take action we created the central idea empathy promotes change Alpine fifth graders are currently working on exhibition and we will present to the school community on February 22nd when speaking to several teachers at Alpine they felt that design thinking is a big part of learning at our school kids develop understanding and empathy and it identify needs and people they're helping when we

020spoke with students they loved all the opportunities they have at Alpine as IB STEM students like going to Calwood participating in after-school clubs and learning about unit units of inquiry we love that our teachers make learning fun it's a fact Alpine is the place to be hi I'm Jennifer Guthals the principal Fall River Elementary we have the courage to be outstanding and I thought it might give you the best picture of Fall River to hear from our students what they are dreaming of doing when they're growing up and what at Fall River has either inspired or supported that dream they actually entered into an essay contest at our school so these are the winners as you will see the essays are going around and they were too long to fit into our two minutes allotted

021so they helped me write a little synopsis from their essay and they're going to each read that I have Holt and Lowry Sarah Miller Gavin Garoung and Natalie Schaefer hi I'm Holt and when I grow up I want to work at a trampoline park and do a job that keeps me healthy but and lets me see kids happy every day my teacher has a frame quote that says all of our dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them Fall River has encouraged me to live a healthy life and has taught me to set goals in life and keep going no matter what hi I'm Sarah and my dream job is to be an author of fantasy books my inspiration for my dream job is all the writing assignments we've done math and

022reading and all the books we've read that taught me different styles of writing and the properties of a good book now I realize how much I like to write hi my name is Gavin my future dream job will be a technological programmer I love to do anything with technology from computers to iPads I absolutely love coding and know how to code and use technology because of Fall River introducing me to scratch bits box Chromebooks and iPads my name is Natalie Schaefer my future dream job is to be a teacher Fall River has enriched my dream by teaching me how to have critical thinking remain positive in the face of challenges be independent be collaborative be creative have empathy and be organized I've learned these things through our student powered projects stem leadership and peer mentorship

023well thank you guys that was really terrific and by the way I can tell by your penmanship none of you are planning to be doctors because I can I can read everything do teach cursive at fall that was really not that was just marvelous marvelous penmanship good evening I'm Jeff from the assistant principal at Timberline pk8 our principal Carrie Borski just returned back to work two days ago from surgery and unfortunately with her recovery plan is not able to come here tonight but I know she is extremely proud of our our eighth graders who are here to speak tonight and when I spoke to these girls about this opportunity it was really clear what was on their mind and it's the excitement of going up to high school the transition and all the things that

024they've been exposed to so I have Aisha Fragoso and Marisol Garcia here to speak a little bit about that so I'm here to talk about ICAP which is a program that's really helped me personally with my transition to high school because when I walked into eighth grade first I had no idea what I wanted to be what career I wanted to pursue but through surveys and quizzes to help me find my personality and help me see what I what types of careers might interest me I learned that I actually want to be an ethical hacker and so it's really helped me because not only does it help me see the careers I might want to take but it also helps me with future scholarships that I might that I can start applying to now and

025that are renewable and that that not only me because I come from a Hispanic family not only can I not afford to go to college but it's also it helps me way even more to pursue my dream and to actually finish it I'll be talking about how counselors from sky and have be very helpful throughout the process of signing up for the programs we're gonna take for next year they've been coming down here at Timberline to help us and talk about the classes we're gonna take for next year it's been really helpful for them to come and help us throughout the process and it's really helpful for me thank you both very much we really appreciate you sharing your stories thank you good evening I am Josh lemon I'm the stem coordinator from Trail Ridge

026Middle School Eddie cloak is our principal he's in the back he's in the back because we were worried that he's so handsome he actually might break those cameras so we represent Trail Ridge Middle School I have Ariel's on Guiano Solis and Selena Uyen and together we brainstormed some things that make Trail Ridge great and you'll see on our puzzle piece the very far left we actually have a student who is sick he wasn't able to be with us tonight but he is in our significant support needs program and one thing that you'll hear about Trail Ridge is that we are very inclusive and we have a great culture around us so I wanted Juan to be here because he is a big part of our culture and what makes Trail Ridge great he is in

027he has his own classroom our SSM program but throughout most of the day you'll see him included in our in our other classes and you can actually see him really being bought embodied and included with every other student so here's Ariel hello my name is Ariel I am a seventh grader at Trail Ridge Middle School and my school is a STEM school we do design thinking where students work on complicated projects by brainstorming solutions we are also collaborators because we work together by doing big projects like making posters essays three-day models and programming we are diverse because we have a lot of people with different backgrounds from all over the world we care for others and not just ourselves we are bionic bionic stands for believe it or not I care and National Junior Honor

028Society these clubs are there to help our community grow happier and nicer and to grow a positive culture hello my name is Selena and I'm a seventh grader as well so for the STEM school we do design challenges like last year I had to create a bulletin board where the students can read up on to see what they do instead of only relying on the teachers and we have our electives where you can express your talents and just express yourself through music language art voice instruments performance and technology for core extension we like to express them in our school like learning how to type do yoga learn how to play chess designing for real-world problems creating video games and building robots we are competitive but since we are competitive we have the courage of failing

029and the courage of always pushing forward and for our clubs the clubs are there for all the grade levels to get together to collaborate on hap hobbies and ideas like student council sport and JHS girls coding rainbow science and vex robotics thank you yes I'm in charge of talking about the academics and I mean I'm sure you hear this from every kid who go gives you one of these presentations but I wouldn't go anywhere but skyline oh I'm sorry I'm Kenneth Frederick I am a junior at skyline high school um we have so many great programs there's really any career you want you can take it at skyline we've got VPA for you know the more left brain we've got P tech in stem for those of us who are more inclined to use our

030thinking I'm humbled every time I talk with family or a distant relative because every time I tell them what I'm doing in stem they say we didn't have that when I was growing up right now I'm designing robots that can do surgery inside of a patient's abdomen tell me another score you can do that like hi my name is Diego Chavez and I'm a sophomore at skyline high school and I don't even know where to start with extracurricular activities because we just have so many and at skyline high school I am involved with soccer and I'm also in student council and me personally I think you know I'm proud to say that we were the first team that made it first team in skyline history that made it to the quarterfinals this year and for

031that you know that made an impact on all of skyline and that you could tell you know you had everybody supporting you and everybody through the club supporting you and you know we have so many clubs you know we to a yoga club we have you know yeah I guess you consider soccer and basketball and all those clubs too because that's just how skyline you know runs together hi I'm a Haley Johnson I'm a senior at skyline high school and I'm actually part of student council and the softball program what I really like about skyline is we really focus on leadership like for sports we have leadership meetings for a select few every Wednesday every late start and I think that's really awesome and being a part of student council I've gotten an opportunity to

032be such a great leader and I've learned a lot we have trunk or treat for the little kids and so all of the feeder schools can come in and go around to our cars get some candy for Halloween and then right now we have an event called family feud and we're really excited for it we have a couple of teams coming out and it's a new event so hopefully it goes well so the last piece going around is a we are skyline piece last year skyline started a we are skyline movement and basically it's there to unify a very diverse school so on that piece you're gonna see in big letters we are skyline around that in red you're gonna see our feeder schools because our feeder schools eventually make up who is at skyline

033and it rounds that in black you're gonna find words like artists innovators mathematicians engineers discoverers and because all of the students at skyline represent all of these different types of people and that is something we're very proud of and the way that we can bring all of these different people together through our various academic programs like stem and VPA and P tech as well as our athletic programs from football to golf to swimming to softball to P tech and P tech to our computer science programs so we're really just proud of everything that we can do at skyline and what we can provide for all different kinds of people so to that I want to say thank you to all of you and to our principal and to our superintendents for allowing us to have

034these opportunities to begin with so thank you before before we finish up I just want to thank the parents who are here also if you're a parent of one of these wonderful students would you please stand so we can recognize you thank you for being here on Valentine's evening and all the support thank you so much students you did and just an outstanding job I think that if I were a kid I would want to go to all of your schools you just you made it sound like just a wonderful place to go to school so we're really proud of each one of you I'm wondering if the board or Don or anyone has questions for student advisory students or anything else that you'd like us to share Paula I don't particularly have questions but

035I just wanted to comment if that's okay so I know Kenny had asked us earlier today kind of what what to expect in presenting to the board and I had shared back that we really wanted to hear your your story from all the feeder systems because we know a lot of the facts and figures but we just like to hear the reality of it and you nailed it like and I know you didn't plan it in one day so you you knew what you're doing and then I also want to just point out with the skyline feeder Lena kind of summed a lot of it up that I that I was going to say about how the feeder is very large I think it's our biggest one as far as number of schools and it's

036very diverse and but it's so well vertically integrated like the kids you know to kind of flow flow right through and that's really I'm showing my age but that's a testament of a lot of hard work on the part of the leadership and the principals in those schools and the students and the families because 10 years ago 15 years ago when my kids started in this feeder it wasn't like that it was a much more fractured place so there's really been so much work done to create that community and create that family so I just want to thank everybody involved that made that that made that happen and I also want to just thank the the younger students for coming as well because I see them and then it's just so lovely to see the

037progression of the elementary school the middle school and the high school kids and then you know we know their story Lena just got some very good news as far as what her next step is which you should would you care to share with us even beyond that like college is a very public next step for our students but it goes I know students from this feeder that are US Marines and that have gone to University of Pennsylvania Vanderbilt University I mean it's endless and are also still in our community working so it's just it's just the beginning like it's just really the tip of the iceberg and this story will stay with all of you for the rest of your lives so we just thank you for building this community with us and allowing us

038to be part of it great presentation thanks yeah thank you Paul yeah I'd add a couple of comments if I could first I want to thank the parents because this doesn't happen without a parent-school partnership and we recognize that we appreciate that your involvement means means everything to I want to recognize the building leadership the leaders that are here tonight Joe Audrey Amber Jennifer Jeff Josh the two handsome for his own good Eddie cloak and and Heidi as well because really I mean you guys the it's the building leaders who see the full continuum of of issues and opportunities and and across the school district I mean you see everything from dealing with individual children to policy questions so you see the breadth of the district and and you are the ones that are critical

039to the success and and then I particularly and I think I mean this on all on behalf of all the board you you guys the students have made this a very special Valentine's Day board meeting for us because to hear from you guys is really what we we do this for and to do this and to present the way from the youngest to to the more senior of you did it with such poise and confidence it's better than I usually run these meetings frankly so you just did a terrific job that we've had marvelous presentations over the years but I don't I certainly don't think we've had a more personal one that more pictorially shows the the complexity and yet the unity of the feeder system so it's just just really terrific very very well

040done so thank you all very much for being here all right and with that anyone who wants to stay for the board reports is certainly welcome yeah Diane do you want to do the do your report next well it's a somewhat smaller group boy what a you talk about a school that's transformed yeah all right well for those of you are who are still here thank you for hanging in there and as long as we're doing reports I thought maybe it would just ask Diane to go ahead and give the wellness culture and safety inventory report we're all very very interested in hearing that Diane and so thank you for being here to present absolutely well thank you so much I am happy to be here this evening and share some information regarding our wellness

041culture and safety inventory I have with me some great colleagues who work with me to support not only the implementation of this inventory but also what are we going to do with the information and the the details that we have from it so we can continue to support our school so first I have Brian Krauss as you know he's our executive director of student services many of the programs and the support structures that we put in place come from our department of students and services and so wanted to have him share some of the information from his own perspective and also I wanted to bring forward Patrick Mount Patrick Mount is our director of information technology and what you may not know is that Patrick has been part of a team putting together this inventory

042since its conception Patrick has been a member of an assessment team as well as in technology and in fact one of the reasons we tapped him was previous to this work he had successfully completed a data fellowship with the Harvard Graduate School of Education so his background is a statistics teacher math teacher in high school and helps us really take a look at the data in a meaningful way and with that just want to kind of go over a little bit about the background of the wellness culture and safety inventory this is our third year of implementation it is the second year of full implementation three years ago we piloted it with about half of our schools and we really kind of moved in this direction because we wanted to have timely information that we

043could use in that year of obtaining it so we've set aside October is the month to conduct the inventory and we've been able to get the data back within two months which is really exciting previous to that we were using some other inventories from other organizations and statewide groups the last time we used what is known as the Healthy Kids Colorado it took about two years for us to get that data back and so it's really been important for us to have our own inventory one that is anonymous not just confidential and one where we can use the technology because all of our high school students have iPads this inventory is about half as long and length as some of the statewide inventories our students can take it anywhere between 20 and 30 minutes and

044they all have that opportunity on a voluntary basis to do so so so far we've gotten some pretty good feedback on the the the structure of the the inventory and how we go about implementing it with that I'm going to turn it over to Patrick who's going to give us a little bit of data on the demographics of the sample students who actually took the survey thank you dr. Lauer and good evening board so we this is as Diane said this is the third year we've given it the second full year of full implementation we had over 5900 students high school students in grades 9 through 12 take the assessment that's a 65 percent response rate that provides us enough information to feel like this is a very strong comparability over over 95 percent confidence

045confidentiality level with a margin of error of less than 1 percent we also in looking at the data observe that we've got a very close correlation from a demographic breakdown perspective so while we had 29 percent of our students in the district grades 9 through 12 identified as Hispanic we had about the same amount 32 percent self identify as Hispanic on the assessment and so we feel like there's a great deal of reliability in this in this assessment I'll go over that also true with free and reduced lunch respondents so we I haven't looked at that data and then I can I can investigate those further questions if you wish thank you for asking it is self-reported data on the assessment versus the data we have an October count is what's officially submitted by the

046parents so some of the details as we dig into this on the next slide from the health and wellness perspective actually I'm going to pass this back to Diane so she can go over those details we're gonna start off by going over some of the data and because this is our second year of full administration what we noticed overall is that the results are very similar to last year you'll notice in this presentation you'll see a little triangle that shows an uptick or a little bit of a downtick but most of the places really were within one or two percentage points and so that's not really substantial the one area where we did see some substantial shift was in the area of our students self reporting their physical activity was on increase of about five

047percent students who said that they were active for more than 60 minutes a day three or more times a week this could have been connected to the administration a year ago we gave it in December so we gave it in October this year so we're gonna take a look at it next year to see if that continues but maybe a little bit easier to be outside when when it's warmer so who knows we'll take a look at that but overall health and wellness wise our students self report that that they're doing well and being physically active and having access to to medical care and dentists and getting a good night's sleep we're pretty excited to see that across the board another section that we look at is really our home and community and and this

048really resonates with us and what we hear from our our families and our communities our kids feel safe they feel safe in their communities and an overwhelming percentage so that that's really wonderful to see if we take a look at our school culture we also see that our students really value their education we have 98 percent of our students feel like graduating from high school is important to them that's outstanding they have goals they have plans they they really have lots of opportunities to be involved and they like their school and finally they they really believe that the adults in the school are show them a great deal of respect and care and we saw that tonight with our presentation from skyline the next slide addresses school safety in more detail we're happy to report

049that 97 percent of the students feel they have not been threatened harassed or hurt by another student on school property that's no change from the prior year and we've got 95 percent of the students who are not involved in any physical fights again a small one percent change from the prior year as we dig into drugs tobacco and alcohol if you look at the triangles that Diane mentioned earlier you'll see very little change from the past 90 percent of our students 97 percent of our students report that they have not driven a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol similarly 94 percent have not done so under the influence of marijuana 91 percent have never smoked a cigarette and 87 percent have never used any cigarette or chewing tobacco we're gonna turn to Brian now

050and he's gonna talk about the area an area of focus with mental health excuse me so could you tell us you said there was a 1% confidence level at the beginning and when the percentage is changed by what kind of change would there have to be for you to identify that as a significant change from the prior year so so a change of 1% because that confidence level means that it's essentially the same information we can't we can't identify it as being an increase or a decrease when it's when the change is 1% or less and a change of 2% then we look at it and work in more detail and that's some of the information we do consider is how how is our how are our plans our implementations of interventions affecting the outcome

051of what students are reporting as far as safety and culture in their schools so you attach significance to a change of 2% then we look for the largest changes in particular to see how those interventions are are playing out or where our greatest attention needs to be we're gonna be talking more detail just a little bit later about some of those approaches we want to take to address the data I think one of the things that we work and collaborate with Panorama next year our third year of administration of this tool I think we're gonna feel a little bit more confidence with the the individual questions and so at this year they've kind of worked with us to not attribute too much reliability to the individual questions but after three years of implementation of the

052same instrument we should be able to provide some more statistical feedback with regards to those up and downs and what statistical relationship they show thank you thank you Diane I appreciate as we've talked in the past we've talked a lot about mental health and student services approach to that I believe last spring and and it's just we've really focused on some areas around mental health we've seen some some good results from this we we see around 33% find good ways to manage stress and again I think the push for you heard from the students tonight extracurricular activities being involved in school has helped deal with some of that and that's a pretty low number I'm sorry 33 do not have healthy ways so about 70 was at 67% do and I think that's a that's

053a pretty positive outcome also one of the things that we've we've really stressed our early interventions and creating that trusted people for kids to talk to at the school level and we're seeing around 51% so about 49 are not comfortable talking about their their feelings and then we're looking obviously at sadness and hopelessness and that's that's an area that we need to continue to look at and we're looking at some changes of programming around kids that have some severe mental health needs that we need to address and then obviously the the most concerning is the 15% of contemplated suicide at some point according to their self-report so some of our next steps again I talked a little bit about early intervention we feel like that is key providing some social emotional learning programs at the

054elementary level we've talked about a little bit about sources of strength at level where kids find community they have peer support and peer run programs to include kids in the schooling system at the secondary level in addition to that in focus continues to be a big program for us because it teaches things like mindfulness stress management and also creates a trusted adult or people to talk kids to talk to if they're having problems and so that's been an important part of it in also we've had the opportunity to gain the counselor core grant which allows us to create more counselors at the elementary and secondary level to help address mental health needs as we move forward Brian can I can I ask you a question before you go further the 15% that report have ideation

055of suicide or suicidal thoughts I guess maybe two two questions one is is there anything in the literature to suggest that that that's over the last 20 30 years that that's is it higher than it historically was I mean are we as school districts dealing or are these students dealing with stresses that weren't there 20 years ago I mean do you have a feel for that I do and I feel like there's more there's more talk about it and I think there are more there's more openness to seek out help where it used to be swept under the rug we don't talk about that sort of thing and the implementation of a new suicide risk review to where we're asking mental health professionals to fill out paperwork and say you know what are you thinking

056about and giving the the kids and the family's resources I think it is key and so I would say that there's probably more more conversations happening and it may seem like an inflated number but there's less swept under the rug and people are getting the help and the resources that they need because that's that's maybe more openness around around it then and there was right and and and we know that Colorado has typically been you know in one of the states that has the highest rate of suicide and so we're we're hopefully breaking down some of those walls and kids are coming to trusted adults and saying I'm feeling this way can you help me and I think that's a I think that's a good thing okay does that make sense yeah it does I

057mean you you you hate see these numbers go up but if it simply means that people are being more open and that we're dealing with it in a more forthright way then it's really a good thing and we haven't seen a whole lot of growth you know even the self-reported is I think is the same but it's it's still concerning because you lose you lose one any sense of how we would compare to other school districts we don't really have an instrument for that I would say that we are doing very well compared to other school districts in my experience yeah John yeah thank you um so we have 33% that is saying that they don't have an outlet to deal with their stress factor sadly 67 percent that do do you have a feeling

058as to whether that's extracurricular activities or if that's engagement with teachers or how are they finding those avenues to deal with the stress I think you're exactly right it's all of those things it's being involved in the school community it's having a trusted adult it's being feeling safe it's all of these different pieces because I think kids feeling safe and and feeling connected and being able to deal with their stress means a community adults friends peers and it's a number of different factors and so extracurriculars we look at that as one piece of it but I think a student can connect at any of our schools and in a positive way just by by being there being involved and being part of the school culture and that's what we need to continue to work on

059have you seen any schools that were on a higher spectrum that are now dealing it maybe with student engagement or collaboration with peers that where it's actually being effective is that something we can point to as a benefit to the students and their engagement with schools yes and I would I would point directly to Silver Creek High School with the implementation of the Source of Strength program by having a peer-led community group that works on school culture and student-led is the key I believe because it's its students making a difference and changing the culture of their school making it okay to come to somebody and talk to somebody and to to create inclusivity I think is really the key and I would I would point to them and as we continue to look for other

060schools to add sources of strength to I think we can use that as a model our counselors an avenue that we're also pursuing in terms of adding more bandwidth to our counseling absolutely and again I think the key is that early intervention so if we can continue to put things in place at the elementary around mindfulness and kindness you heard tonight the bionic program which is believe it or not I care which is funny but it's it's a very it's it's a very strong program because it creates culture at the school level to where kids have people that care about them and they're doing nice things and if we can start at that level and continue up at the secondary level with programs that create the culture of caring I think that's where we can

061get the most bang for our buck right and I think we've seen that all the programs that we offer are are doing wonders for our students but they also are providing some avenues of stress in terms of overachievers to those who may feel that they're they're being kind of held up to the the mirror or right under the microscope microscope thank you very much and and so I know those pressures are ones that we didn't have to face quite as much in our lifetime but with all the implementations of stress that are going on in this world and we're seeing some of that unfolding in Florida as we speak today and so it's very important that we get some avenues for our students to have an outlet to feel like they are are being heard

062and to also not only be feel that they're being heard but they are literally being heard and dealt with in an early intervention I'd like to hear you say that so thank you yeah and and I think really the key again is belonging if kids feel like they belong right then it's a better atmosphere and so I'd like to move on a little bit to talking about the the custom data dashboard and I just want to say that this particular the data dashboard is unique to Colorado and the work that Patrick and his team have done is exceptional and it will allow us to have better information so if you could talk a little bit about that thank you Brian so in speaking with principles when I was first hired I asked what would they

063like in terms of more data and one principle in particular spoke about the need to be able to see in a quick visual where students are at in particular ours high school students ready to graduate his seniors ready to graduate how about as freshmen are they are they on track to graduate and so with our programming team in particular dr. Debbie Telfer a data dashboard was created that allows our district leaders these are principals and counselors interventionists to to see in a dashboard format their students who may be at risk of of some of these challenges we're talking about based upon GPA current grades attendance disciplinary issues and other factors that are known to contribute so we developed the dashboard with the goal of trying to support that and what I want to emphasize about

064district technology services partnership is well it's great joy to empower students with the technology devices and the speeds and the feeds that allow our wireless network to work well we also see our opportunity and really our our our command to support the learning in the schools and the safety of students by providing meaningful data in an easy fashion for our leaders to have access to so that's our data dashboard and we're grateful that a talented team was able to develop that in addition I talked a little bit about the suicide risk review we did create a data portal to for all that information and we did revise the suicide risk review to allow anybody who it doesn't have to be a mental health professional but anybody to be able to fill out that suicide risk

065review and to get to that person to the person they need to talk to to get resources to include the community all those sort of things and so that's that's been a big part of it and then obviously we've been continuing to work with school counselors and mental health professionals our interventionists providing them with the latest and especially dealing with marginalized populations how do we continue to work with them and one of the things that I am very thankful for is is Don made the decision to look at hiring an education equity and community engagement coordinator which is not an easy title but an important role because Olga in that role can provide help to families and continue to look at how we engage our families in the schooling system and so we're very excited

066about that position moving forward in student services so one of the areas we've discussed already is the area of student culture and our data here show that the side we have up that a 69 percent of our students do participate in school related group activities 63 percent feel they that students treat one another with respect 76 percent feel free to express who they are at school 81 percent feel like they're part of the school and 87 percent feel safe at school it's the other side of that data that concern us so we know that when students are engaged in their in their school that their success rates both in school and in life are much higher but when you look at the other side of this data we see that roughly 30 percent of our

067students do not participate in a school related activity roughly a third feel that students do not treat each other with respect in their school roughly a quarter feel like they do not feel they are safe to it's not safe to express who they are at school about a fifth feel that they're not part of the school and roughly one tenth or so feel do not feel they're safe at school and so this is a concern of ours and we're taking measures to to address this dr. Capuchin is leading an effort to help us track student engagement not just in the sports that are that are easier to track but also in clubs that students are involved in so that's some of the work we're doing moving forward as we take a look at this data

068that we have presented here in more detail for some of our disaggregated groups we find that these areas are even greater concern for our LGBTQ students as well as for our Hispanic students and so those are areas of focus for us to continue trying to make progress upon. The reason why those come forward is because when we look at those groups at a disproportionate level they're they're feeling that that lack of safety and that that lack of being able to express who they are so when we take a look at our next steps you know we've really worked hard and again our deputy superintendent Jackie has really steered us in a in a comprehensive way so that we are providing more training and explicit fashion for gender equity and family diversity. This year we'll have

069over 300 staff participate in our gender equity and family diversity institutes and to be able to have that on this scale last year we started with our administrators and our school counselors and so this is pretty exciting for us. We're also in the process of putting together a two-day summer Institute where we bring even more of our staff together for training and in a much more in-depth level and we're just getting lots of requests for more and more training so we really want to be able to to support in that fashion. Additionally when we take a look at the kinds of programs that we want to provide taking a look at at clubs taking a look at activities taking a look at at students who are in AP classes and signing up for those advanced

070classes we really want to dig in the data as well to see who is participating who's not participating how can we increase participation from all groups but especially those who who are not at a disproportionate rate it's really critical for us to do that. Another area of focus for us and we've kind of set as a goal is to have a gay-straight alliance at all of our secondary schools and I know when I came forward a year ago we we only had been at about half I think when we started this work there were very few at the secondary level and and right now all but one of our secondary schools has one and it's really important and just to share a little bit of the literature Vanderbilt University did a meta analysis and they

071found that LGBTQ students who attended schools where gay-straight alliances were present reported significantly fewer incidences of bullying based on sexual gender orientation and identification and so it's really important for us to put these in place so that that presence permeates and it feels that sense of safety I'm not alone and so we've been really fortunate to have so many incredible partners. We've worked with our St. Varene Valley Safe Schools Coalition is one of the organizations out Boulder Oasis they provided some incredible training for our club leaders so that they feel confident and successful and they have up-to-date resources. Another area when we're especially working with our Latino population we have put together a community focus group Olga is one of the people who's been leading that as well as Patrick Patrick Cohen who is our

072coordinator of priority programs. Them working on this has really kind of provided an opportunity for communication about how we can improve the resiliency of members in our community and so really developing those strengths between groups we've had long-standing relationships with like Intercambio and Pai de Padres Education groups that are providing some pretty incredible programming not only for our families but for our students as well. So we're going to continue to do that so that we can support all of our students but especially those who were seeing some some gaps. You know finally there's some other additional steps here we have worked with our deputy superintendent in our area assistant superintendents they are taking the school level data and they're working individually with each high school to kind of look at what are some areas of

073focus for them that's really important and then I'm so glad that Lena is here tonight because one of the things that we'd really like to do is to have an opportunity to share this data with our student advisory groups. Anytime we have a student perception you know inventory I mean this is one snapshot we have many many other data tools just like Patrick was mentioning we have student information coming in from referrals and behavior and attendance and we we really want a comprehensive snapshot but it's important to get some feedback from our students as well love to present this data and kind of bounce off some of those ideas are here's the kind of programs we're putting in place to to hopefully raise that level of of wellness and and belonging across our district so

074hopefully we'll have a chance to connect and then finally you know I mentioned earlier our ongoing collaboration with Panorama and one of the things that we've looked at is there are certain questions that may be a little bit ambiguous or unclear when we look at the rate we had about 6,500 total student responses but when you look at the individual question level you know there are some that you know dropped to a about 4,000 respondents and that's a good indication that and they're typically ones like if you said yes previously if no then you know move forward and we're noticing over the last two years that we have a number of students that are skipping that question so if we don't take a look at that we can continue to have an instrument that we're

075not getting the fullest data scope that we can so we're gonna be working with Panorama to take a look at that I have had a great opportunity to to talk to a number of our parents our survey is is is online anyone can can go and look at it and I've really been pleased with you know I've worked with about five different families who just kind of wanted to talk about it and share their insights about some of the questions and they've provided some great feedback whether tools that we can use to provide better communication so that's really our next steps you know I think kind of just to wrap up we we've seen some some indication of the things that we see today students who are well acclimated strong they see that pathway you

076know they're connected to their future and that's incredible there's absolutely opportunities for us to continue to work and to make sure that we have that sense of belonging safety for all of our student populations that's where we want to be able to do thank you that's a great report you had a question yes I actually had a couple of follow-up questions and I guess it was either Brian or or Diane but when you talk about the the district wide results did you disaggregate them by school we have we have the schools will be able to take a look at their own data yes have you done so yes and are there any statistical statistically significant variations among the individual school responses compared with the district response so we have not taken a look at that

077type of analysis yet and we could but one of the things that you know we have not done that and and I think that where we would like to go is to move into that direction into our third year I think that we just have not done that this year but we would like to do some more statistical analysis in the third year of this implementation because we would like to do a question reliability study we haven't been able to do that thank you I have a follow-up Brian when you indicate are you identified the the I think was the in focus program yes at Silver Creek no source of strength at source of strength at Silver Creek as a positive step in the direction that you felt would increase the number of students who

078had someone they could go and talk to did you see I get in a way I guess Diane's response says that you did not see anything different at Silver Creek compared with the on that question compared with the district results and I and I think it's a little bit early to know that yet with first year implementation of sources of strength this year it would be interesting if we disaggregated out some of those questions after a year of of implementation of sources of strength but but we just don't have that information yeah it seems that there's a wealth of potentially a wealth of data to look within our own system and it identify those approaches school culture participation school safety and and those characteristics that may in some result in some schools doing much better

079on that survey or some portions population subpopulations demographics within a school doing much better than we see in the district wide results and then giving us informing us about what kinds of programs we might reasonably expect could lead to longer-term solutions and so I guess what I'm hearing is we're just not quite there yet right and I think over time as we continue to delve into some of that data we can get a better picture not only at the district level but at the school level community level that sort of thing but but again I think that inclusivity and a sense of belonging for kids is a good place to start and that that we know that if if kids are engaged and they have a trusted adult that that they're more likely to be

080successful and feel safe at school and really our numbers are district-wide are very good but I agree I think we could spend a little more time in the data this following year and get some better pictures of the success or not of programs that sometimes intuition is solutions are counterintuitive right so when we implement research based programs we know that they there's research behind them but we need a few years to be able to do our own rigorous program evaluation to see if there is an effect so sources of strength does have research behind it we are pretty excited that one of our elementary schools participated in a study to find enough effect size on in focus in focus which is the social emotional program we're now using it 24 of our schools that organization

081contracted with the University of Chicago and Tori Teague and I just found out last week that that our data did show that that use of cell did have an effect so we're just starting to take a look at at that data there was our school and another elementary school as part of the Chicago public schools that were part of that study so it's it's absolutely something that we want to do but we want to position ourself in a place where we can do the rigorous program evaluation and it is going to take a little bit of time so that we have data so we can triangulate that with the research that we know about the program but are we getting the same results in our own setting that's really important and I guess just finally

082when it comes to the next year and we have the results reported back to us I would deeply appreciate seeing those results ahead of time so we could ask more informed so I could ask more informed questions that'd be great thank you I want to get make sure Lena has an opportunity do you have any questions or comments I have I have two comments my first one was I think you're talking about the disconnect between students who are involved in extracurriculars and within their school as a general and since our who are not and you're seeing a disconnect in the data and I think that solely comes from there are programs at schools that are geared towards those students specifically we have clubs like GSA and that's geared towards those students only so you're missing

083the group of kids that are working to help pay for things at their house you're missing the ones who cannot afford to be an extracurriculars and the ones who do not have the time whether it's work or they're all in AP or whatever it may be so I think that's a big dynamic that you're missing and my other one was earlier you talked about how extracurriculars can help reduce stress I also believe that they can increase stress because when you participate and like for example myself I'm in at least six extracurriculars at one given time it can get upwards to nine or fifteen so sometimes I'm at school from 7 a.m. until 10 1030 at night depending on the date and in those cases stress is increased and there aren't programs to help reduce that

084stress for that type of student I do know however some of our sports programs at Skyline partner with our academic center so they'll take the first 45 minutes of their practice every single person is required to be at the academic center for those 45 minutes and I know that that is a solution to reducing some of that stress caused by that's great thank you so much appreciate that that's great feedback thank you very much Karen had a question yes the targeted interventions are impressive so thanks for that I they seem very directed I wanted to know oh were there any adolescents involved in the planning of the assessment or the development of the yes okay great question originally there were and is there a comment section so that you can review the qualitative data of

085the assessment there are no open-ended questions and we do not ask for any of that but appreciate that question yeah okay Paula so I just had a couple of things but I'll start with I'll piggyback on what Lena said because I actually was I had a very similar comment about kids that work some because they have to some because they choose to and that in and of itself creates a level of community working with other kids from all around around the district so do we have a question around that on the survey if kids work and if so why I don't believe that we do that I mean yeah just might be absolutely yeah so it's like another component to that piece and and then I also wanted to share that Joey and I am

086really I think a marine might have been with us at the day of excellence when we went to this segment now we're in trouble yeah no we actually paid attention because I remember I paid attention yeah so we went to the counseling segment and they talked about sources of strength and in focus and I believe this guy the Creek counselor was there and was talking about sources of strength and both of them seemed like really strong really incredible programs so and I believe that they said at that this point they were voluntary in the schools but our our how voluntary are they like are we really trying to push I know we have to comply with principals and their staff and their willingness to implement them in their schools but is this something we're really

087pushing for particularly now that we're getting more evidence out of Creek and some of the elementaries as to how effective they are well just to start with the in focus so two years ago Regina Rinaldi worked and and really wanted to ensure that we had a social emotional program in all of our K-8 settings so we took a look we were able to take some site visits to see in focus in action and so what we said was we want all of our students to have access to it we're going to give our schools a choice as to what program they choose most of them have selected in focus and so that is a K-8 program we have it at elementary and middle schools and so it's voluntary as to what program you select but

088we do want all of our students are all of our schools to have a social emotional program and so we just feel that that is critical when we take a look at sources of strength that is voluntary and I think that we want our high schools to also have access to it not only that program but other programs that they're able to access some of our schools have chosen Rachel's challenge some of them have looked at other programs to bring in mindfulness or other types of strategies that they can put into the classroom another exciting change that I've seen over the years is more and more of our high schools are adding an advisory component and I think that advisory component really provides a strong setting to have that adult connection in the room so

089that students can have opportunities to talk about what's going on in their future their career pathways but also things that may be creating barriers for for their learning whether it is peer related or it is tied to things that are happening that they can talk about so I don't know Brian if you wanted to share anything but sources of strength is voluntary at this time thank you so much for the report very comprehensive fantastic report and once again I'm just struck by the systems approach to this because I know for several years since I've been on the board we've kind of we talked about counseling we've talked about the need for more we put more counselors in Silver Creek and in Erie we've talked about how how full the plates are of the counselors but

090this is this is such a systems approach to supporting them instead of just kind of putting more people in the building we're kind of we're laying the foundation for all of it we're leaving all the all the the framework for the whole thing and of course you know if we can put more people out there we will but the systems approach is just fantastic to me so I'm very very impressed by that and then as far as the data that I saw tonight the one that always sticks out to me for students particularly high school students is the stress component I sort of see that one as the core of it because there's stress there's we are pushing these kids these kids are pushing themselves they're challenging themselves to do their best and take the

091most rigorous classes they can and it lays on a lot of stress on these on these kids and I think if that can't be managed it becomes internal and these kids shut down and we're never going to get them to join a club or or reach out to an adult or it's not even it's going to be much harder for adults to reach them so and I do think we've done a good job of finding as many avenues as possible to reach these kids early you know before the stress gets overwhelming I know there's instances of they bring all the GT kids in for lunch and they talk to them about their time management and they talk to them about their study habits things like that where you kind of do that small group of

092an individual outreach as well as having the system stuff in place like all the the clubs available I really think the micro to the macro approaches to it is really critical but that's kind of what I see is like the real nugget of the whole thing is but stress isn't it's part of life it's never going to go away like so that so yes they need to be able to manage it now to cope later so I you know everything and I and I everything I see is kind of pointing in that direction so I'm just really really pleased with this and thank you thank you I know that is that is one of the indicators that really hits me when I take a look at it that I definitely would like to see more

093students with healthy ways of managing stress having those strategies is a lifelong skill and I can say that through our in focus program we've heard from many parents who are seeing the use of those calming strategies being used in their homes and so that's really exciting to see that that's not only making a difference for our kids in our schools but that our families are seeing that as well and so I think that if we're starting at a young age we're doing social emotional programming with our preschoolers as well and so it's just really carrying forward and it's gonna take them throughout their career here and beyond thank you we've seen some of that and I think that's some of the most encouraging stuff other questions comments otherwise yeah and thanks for the great report

094I appreciate it the question about you know when when do we you know see do we see 2% or 1% as significant I can only speak for myself I don't necessarily look to see if it went up by a percent or down by a percent range what I'm looking for more is patterns and themes that emerge that catch my eye and try you know that intuitive sense that when you say 37 percent of our kids don't feel like they have an avenue to go and get some guidance or talk to if it were 36% I wouldn't say okay well it's okay but 37% is not okay for me it's like 35% is a large number to me of kids that don't have an avenue and so that's kind of I look at it more in

095chunks and it was a good question because it really does get to how are we using this data and when are we acting on the data you know what I mean the other thing that I pay attention to is what's going on and you know there's a lot of stress around DACA right now there's also a lot I was going to ask Don how many of our students do we estimate might be dreamers do we oh yeah we don't because we don't track that but we we had a meeting yesterday with our leadership and some community leaders and Olga and we there's some informal knowledge of that but nothing that three or four or five percent it's it's just we just don't know and you know last year we we did have a you know

096we talked about that change in our enrollment to where we saw a number of students that moved out of the state and the country which was unusual you know and that's why we only grew by 250 instead of 600 because of that abnormal fluctuation but there's also a lot of you know a lot of stress coming out of some of the rhetoric that you hear at the federal level you know I most recently read or saw yesterday that the United States Department of Education wasn't going to accept complaints about the use of restrooms for a transgender student and so I know that that I don't know but I would assume that that would create some sense of you know why not and how does that impact our children that might be stressed about something you

097know so all of these outside factors that are you know that are hitting our kids and we have to pay attention to that too but when I look at the whole thing what I came away with is the the challenges around suicide not having someone to communicate with the stress issues you know all of that speaks to me that we if we can add more adult support in the buildings to reach out whether it's more counseling staff you know we're unique in the sense that we have counselors we have interventionists we have counselors at the elementary school you know that's unique to this district and so are the interventionists for the most part I think Boulder Valley does in St. Frank but most school districts don't have that extra layer and Lena I think your

098points were really well taken sorry I didn't mean to wait for you to get a drink of water but you know the stress is a really tough nut to crack because on one hand you know you want kids to really recognize that they're resilient and they have a lot more in them than sometimes they realize and sometimes it's only when you push yourself past that comfort zone do you begin to learn your full potential and then you also recognize that there has to be support to back that up and to help the kids as they're pushing really really hard so you know there's just a lot to digest with this whole thing I also remember seeing at the day of excellence the panel of students consistently were saying you know they could use more guidance

099earlier on with some of the tough decisions that they have to make around next steps so we're looking to add some additional resources and I shared that with you guys yeah appreciate that you brought that up because I wanted to share that with the rest of the board I also you know we were meeting often and we had another meeting today with some of the leadership you know I had an opportunity to meet today with Stan Garnett and his team and then folks from Longmont Police Department and we've been having meetings with all of the police departments in our district and trying to figure out ways to strengthen support for our children and you know talking to Stacey today a little bit about you know how are we gonna staff the new schools with campus

100supervisors and things along those lines and so it's just an ongoing discussion but that's what I think jumped out at me through all of it you know as I cut through all of the data and I think what really jumped out at me is we just have a lot of children that are struggling with either mental illness issues stress issues anxiety issues fear issues around what's going on and we just have to be aware of that and try to address it as best we can and you know I see Marty out there who's a great partner and thank you very much for all the support that you're giving us and helping guide us you know and I see those numbers of our teachers that are getting support that's a that's a far cry from where

101we used to be you know we're better today than we were yesterday and I just think the more we can help our teachers and equip them and our staff but this is something we take really really serious because I think Brian you said it very well you know one child is too many to experience the kind of distress that some of them are reporting to us so anyways thank you Diane again John thank you very much I'll make a quick comment I really heartened to hear the conversation be about stresses to all the students because stress is not a linear thing we can't just say it's our high achievers which are under the most pressure there's bellwethers for every student along the way and the DACA the dreamers the LGBTs the students who are just

102struggling to get through algebra and and I think we need to remind our parents our teachers to celebrate all those achievements I mean that really makes a difference in the lives of all of our students and so they don't feel like they're being held up to a standard that is maybe not achievable but they have their own standards which is achievable and so celebrating each avenue I enjoyed hearing from Lana tonight I think you were right on with you know we have a group of students that have to work or can't afford it or have home responsibilities I enjoyed hearing your comment about the the athletics and getting in there and I don't know whether it's just athletics in terms of they have a study or whether they actually have a teacher assistant or a

103teacher that's in there that's maybe helping them achieve some things because I know athletics is a huge time-consuming and something that these students love to do but we don't want to forget why they're in school and that's obviously for an education so I just wanted to remind our teachers and our parents to really celebrate the achievements of all of our students all along the way because it's it's a nonlinear approach that we need to really be focused on and not just the high achievers all right thank you one quick indicator I think of of how we do relative the districts and and and the success of some of the things we put in place is Don was telling us earlier about some of the expulsion rates of surrounding districts and I think that the fact

104that we have a very very low and sometimes no expulsions in a given semester speaks to the idea that we're dealing with many of these student stresses and behaviors in a prophylactic and interventional way and I think that is it's a good a good indicator for how how we're doing but Don is going to be looking at the counseling program adding some staff and doing some restructuring of tasks so that some folks might focus more specifically on on just the pure academic and career development stuff and others might then focus more on other social emotional issues but I think that the discussion obviously the the deep consideration and thought that staff give to this suggests that this district is truly committed to every every student that is part of our district and their well-being and

105safety all right well thank you very much we appreciate that good discussion and and we'll move along and Don if you want we'll go on with the superintendent's report that's great a couple things we're gonna be hiring for the administrative openings that we have remaining and that will be Lyons middle senior and then also Sunset middle school then that should happen next week and then following that a couple weeks later we will hire an executive director of human resources to move into the position that Damon Brown is leaving to become the assistant superintendent a couple of highlights the Longmont High School girls swim team they won the state championship so that was exciting and then this Thursday we've got a wrestling tournament I think we've got between 40 and 50 I'm not sure the exact

106number of wrestlers that have qualified and then the basketball teams are gearing up and so then a really strong winter and follow up a strong fall so that was good I learned Silver Creek's debate team had three teams score outstanding and are headed off to the state competition so that was exciting and because I don't mention another school it doesn't mean that the other schools aren't sending teams to the state it's just highlighting a few here and there the eerie school district interestingly enough they had a system wide choir concert the other night and I think John you were there yeah and the cars were backed up I think the whole community was probably there well and I'm gonna just try take one more but it's also gonna be a compliment because the VEX robotics

107tournaments we had several of them as we always do John was the yeah John did a great job of announcing I was they had three or four different locations I was in one and I heard his voice and he was actually the emcee and did it really I heard that from several people yeah well done no I heard from several several unnamed sources that you did a great job yeah very much yeah no it was really exciting I went to the Colorado succeeds luncheon and Patty was there and Hillary Sontag our new person and one of the things that was exciting we get a lot of business people there and skyline was highlighted and they had a picture of Patty on the overhead screen as highlighted with a quote about you know an extraordinary or

108an ordinary child given an extraordinary opportunity and then they highlighted I think I sent you the video of the highlighted students at the Innovation Center and so that was a very proud moment to see that excited about our partnership with Colorado succeeds also attended the American Heart Association Symposium this morning it was a full house and really really powerful a lot of talk about the difference in well-being when you have a positive outlook versus something that's less than positive and not only your outlook but also how you talk about things and how you message things and it reminded me of the conversation we're having a little bit around public education because they actually began to show the brain's reaction when you hear something negative and how you have your first initial reaction is to avoid

109that conversation and they really talked about the power in communicating positively and not from a place of deficit or negatively and it's not to say that you sugarcoat everything but it is to say that you have to really be aware of the way in which you're communicating and how you garner support so that was an enjoyable time gonna be going to Colorado School of Mines meeting with their leadership here soon I think Friday and it's just part of a lot of outreach that we're doing with different colleges universities and people we are getting ready to start the not getting ready we've had two negotiation sessions and I've been meeting regularly with Steve Villarreal and Ella Padilla has been leading the negotiations process and you as you know we're not talking about dollars and cents this

110year because it was a two-year agreement there but that seems to be going well Brian solidified the annexation for the Innovation Center land so that's done and we're good to go and now we're just trying to finalize things with the Montessori property that's right next door to it and then Jackie if you want to share a little bit about that grant that we discussed it'll help with the zero to three initiative we're we're kind of on a fast track with a lot of grant activity that we have more capacity with Hillary now and so we're gonna be pushing a lot of grants forward so this one's exciting Diane Lauer and Hillary Sontag who's our new grants and partnership director are working on a project they're pursuing an opportunity with the Gary community investment foundation along

111with open IDEO in partnership with open IDEO and those two foundations together really work to support children in the age of zero to three in terms of their development and so we are pursuing this grant specifically to support solutions that address urgent challenges influencing the first three years of life these ideas should support children at their earliest ages and will involve the influencing of parents families teachers and providers in communities and systems and what we're going to ask for is anywhere between a hundred thousand and five hundred thousand most likely they're going to give two three four grants they have up to five hundred thousand dollars to provide for this work and we are going to ask for them to help support a mobile learning lab that we can get out into our communities and

112further the work of the Lena start project that's being done with the our Center and that would work with getting our mobile lab into communities and to work with parents to do language development which really supports brain development at that age so in addition to augmented reality and virtual reality and our stem work and our iPads that could be done in this mobile lab we would really target that zero to three age group so instead of always having to have those families come to us or go to another location we would go to them and it would be a way for us to connect with the families really early on in our community any questions related to that Jackie thanks yeah all right so board report anything else done that's it all right very good

113Karen we'll just go around the table okay I'll keep it quick okay I had the great honor of presenting the same brain sportsmanship award to to Niwet High School basketball players so it was really great it was just so meaningful and also just tonight's presentations were such a wonderful demonstration of the effect of holding our students to such high standards and achievement and emphasizing high value of moral distinction and just how our entire system is set up to support a lot of students all of our students so it's just a still a great new experience for me and thank you hi yes thank you very much um I I do think that today was a great reflection on just the depth that this district goes to and it started off with the new hires it's

114really incredible to see our new hires coming from within I think that speaks volumes it says that you know we're doing the professional development and we're really holding ourselves up to a collaborative status that really makes our administrators and our teachers want to reach for higher achievements and they are and and that's just heartening I congratulate all our new hires and we'd won higher outside and I know we're disappointed a lot of districts around the state by stealing the best of the best but that's that's that's great for us and I appreciate hearing those yet you know I Don did steal my thunder and a couple of the reports that I was gonna have we did have a day of excellence and I and I think that's something that we all shared in and really

115learned a lot from and I know that's gonna grow in the years to come but the the choir I'll start off with that it was a eerie feeder choir that came together and all the students of all this well not all the students all the schools participated with their choir programs and it was fascinating because they started off right out of the gate everybody's singing and so all the choirs came together to sing the same song and and it was just people were in awe and then each feeder system each school got up and sang their own particular songs then they ended by all coming together again and it was standing room only it was packed they had to move it to the gym because there were so many people that that they knew that

116we're gonna show up and and they did and so that community support that engagement that we're getting really does stand for a community being proud of not only their sports but obviously the the choir programs that come together and there's so many others that really just exemplifies how well the community backs their school systems and it's really great to see that our public schools are achieving such high standards and getting such supports from everyone and that rolls right into the robotics on the robotic program was this weekend and it again we have I believe there's a hundred and thirty three teams in vex robotics and 33 schools throughout the district and there's over 600 students who participate in that and you have to remember that these programs are after school these are on weekends this

117day started at 830 in the morning a little bit earlier for the competitors they got there around 730 of 8 supposed to be over at 330 I didn't get home until just before 5 it was fascinating to see I had worked and done some MCA for the vex robotics this was the IQ was a little bit different so I got to learn a new sort of robotic challenge that they came together and in the vex robotics there are two teams in this IQ there were four teams and the collaboration that has to come together for these schools who haven't worked together before but the the challenge is that they compete to fulfill first one program where it's automated and they have to program the robot to do something and collect as many points as they

118can and then their driver assisted programs but they they challenge themselves to get as many points and it is a combination of the amount of points that they get as a team so two different schools are working together and then they also have individual points that they get so the students cheer for one another they talk afterwards to see how the robots did the robots have to pass a certain standard in terms of their width and their height and they can only use so many motors but it's fascinating to hear them talk about how their robots maybe were able to lift something higher or to turn faster or to push things faster but it is collaborative and that's that's the thing I want to communicate that these students are are working together even though they're

119competing at a at a level which many of us you know don't get that opportunity to have that dichotomy of of challenging and competing and also working together in a holistic approach so again the program is is run by parents it's run and supported by some companies and corporations and it is incredible the support that our schools do get from the community and that's the biggest the best change and the biggest change that I've seen with all of our schools is that we're bringing in all these companies to work with our schools and I think we now have over 60 corporations that are working with our St. Varian district and that's great to see so I applaud all of the efforts of our not only our teachers but our community members that get together and

120really pursue excellence in education with our students and I'll stop there yeah these aren't just school events that community events thanks Bob tonight I want to recognize Longmont Estates elementary school I had an opportunity to attend their innovation fair and it was wonderful the students are so imaginative and I was really able to see the value of the design thinking process and really at the end of that morning and this is a common theme I think anytime any of us go into schools probably but at the end of that morning I couldn't help but feel hope for the future and excitement over just every year seeing what St. Varian Valley students do and how they'll be able to contribute not only to our schools and our community but to our state and our nation as

121well and then Patrick just wanted to thank you and Joe for the Karen and I were able to tour DTS thank you very much it was time spent appreciate all of the work that you guys do over there thank you like Karen I had the opportunity to grant my sportsmanship awards to students and I always go to a game with me to end skyline so I can do both teams boys and girls so it's a it's a full night and I have to switch sides like I have to sit on one side of the gym and then I have to send the other side of the gym but it's it's always fun and I I get very nervous doing it like like picking picking the right student and then you know having to having to

122having to give them a word and it's just so funny when you're standing there talking to the students because as you're watching them play they're all out there they're working really hard you know they're you know they're they're young adults but they're also like tall especially the boys like they're so tall when they're standing around you you get down there you're like oh my god look it's um but it's it's it's amazing they're just so respectful and they're just such great kids all of them and it's just it's really an honor to be able to to be a part of that and then also I wanted to just do a quick thank you to the teachers because I know that it's teacher conference time and I know this two schools do it at different times

123but several of the high schools are heading into that now so I wanted to thank all the teachers for the time and effort and administrators that they put into that as well as the parents who attend and support it and provide meals for the teachers and the whole system around that and then also excuse me we had student advisory this morning which I always love and again it was a great meeting and I think some really relevant topics were discussed and do you want to give a quick overview of what was on the agenda this morning? Okay so today at Student Advisory Council we were at skyline which was nice and we talked about we had several different presenters and we were presented to from communications I believe and we talked about different webs the

124website that the district uses and how to effectively get different communications to the students and so I saw a lot of really neat ideas and valuable viewpoints come from that we also talked about transcripts and how our test scores were reported on those which was interesting I never knew that there was thought that went into it I was just like oh my transcript has my SAT on it great like that's perfect but like there's actually a really valuable reason for why that's there we talked about what else and we talked about a leadership opportunity that's going on for juniors right now where they're gonna work on like a year-long project type thing and they're gonna end up going to California and like competing and presenting it sounds very unique and cool and I wish I

125could do it but I'm a senior so that can happen and then we had our singing Valentine's sing to our student advisory council so that was fun and I don't sing I was sung too you're gonna have to do the harmony and then we had two different students report I reported out about a project that's going on it's slowly blossoming into a district-wide project it's often referred to as Cinderella's closet and so to Silver Creek juniors are heading it up Skyline student council is going to now we're tag teaming it with them and so basically it's a prom dress drive so use on used prom dresses will be donated and we're also we would like to expand it to suits and other things that are accustomed to the tradition of prom and so people who

126can't afford to buy those things can come in and pick their dresses or suits for whatever or whatever they need for free and then they can go to prom so and the other report was on a theater program that they'd like to do it's an honor honors program kind of like an honor district choir and sound very unique and up several particular students allies there was beatboxing involved there was beatboxing involved with the singing valentine graham it was amazing I didn't beat one of the students who was here did it was it was amazing but we couldn't ask you to do that no just tracking yeah thank you Bob I have four items that I'd like to report on teacher excellence leadership excellence partnerships and alternative education so with regard to teacher excellence I had

127the privilege of visiting a number of schools and as each of us have most recently I spent the morning at Thunder Valley K8 with principal Karen music and a couple of times I met with principal Eric Finistead at Silver Creek High School I've spent we spent a lot of time visiting schools themselves and visiting classrooms it was wonderful to see the level of engagement of our students with and without technology the students where they were using technology every student and Patrick I want to give a shout out at Silver Creek had the appropriate laptop or Chromebook they were charged up they were engaged and that was one of the things I'd asked the principal about and that experience is not necessarily even across the district but it certainly is in place at both Thunder Valley

128and Silver Creek High School and I was just reminded that we in the so at st. frame are just richly blessed with the quality and dedication of our teachers who are so committed to ensuring that every student has an opportunity to reach their highest potential and it was inspirational just as the presentation from the skyline feeder this evening was with regard to leadership excellence I wanted to give a more extended shout out to the staff to dawn and his senior staff that was an extraordinarily successful event I think for the first first year it connected with the communities in ways that we have not done before it was a tremendous turnout from each from your whole staff throughout the throughout the day by my account it was certainly extraordinarily well organized key district staff giving

129and by my count about 26 separate workshops delving into the details not only sharing but listening and to parent comments we had a night who had a great I thought board session of listening to the public I merged with just a tremendous appreciation for the dedication and extraordinary quality of the staff that we have working for us here at st. frame and the level of support that we've been able to over the years gather from our community and the wonderful ideas they have for things that we can work together and do better it was extraordinary carry just extra and really shout out to all of our staff you had your whole senior staff a number of teachers but mostly your senior district staff for leading those workshops that were tremendously informative I think everybody here

130was was there even even finance I think but you were there and you did and delivering a first quality first-rate program with regard to partnerships I wanted to share that as I reported before I was elected to the Colorado Association of School Boards we had our first three-day school board meeting in a west of Colorado Springs and during that meeting I was elected to the executive committee of that board it's my hope in this role to be able to build a strong foundation based upon the foundation that Debbie Lammers our own Debbie Lammers established as a highly regarded and effective CASB board member I hope to be able to participate with them and and and be a force to help strengthen CASB's role as an influential and effective voice for public education excellence in public

131education here in Colorado and finally I had the good fortune to be able to spend with regard to alternative education schools I spent a couple of hours with Heidi weekly at Main Street School and I learned more in that time about what was actually happening at that school than I think I I've known in the in the 15 years I've been part of the district it's really a school that is designed to capture and support the needs of students who fall outside our other programs those with special needs or special circumstances that program is really an umbrella program that includes make something called the Main Street School for our more traditional special needs students life skills alternative cooperative education they call it LS ace but I thought if I said LS ace no one would

132know what I was talking about another program one in conjunction with CR schools for our students with autism and severe learning disabilities and then a teacher in digital learning academy all of that is high housed at Main Street School and just tremendous work occurring we visited I think every classroom and auditorium and the gym and I asked Heidi weekly who oversees there between a hundred and a hundred and fifty students in that program k-12 I asked her how she measures her success and she thought for a bit and she said you know she measures her success by how many students are able to successfully transition to their home schools and take part in the broader range of academic and co-curricular opportunities that are available for them there we will hear more about the capital needs

133of the Main Street School on our agenda that I look forward to from Brian but I want to express my heartfelt appreciation to Heidi and her tremendously dedicated staff and teachers for the amazing work they're doing with this student population to help ensure that each student develops to their highest potential yeah and by the way thank you very much for being on that CASB executive committee it's an extra amount of commitment time and but I think it's a great investment on behalf of our district that you're making so thank you for doing that thank you John yeah I'm remiss in something and I appreciate that Main Street common I'm kind of fascinated at her response because I've actually been doing the graduations the last couple years and I talked with the students and their matrix

134of success I would say is the fact when they can navigate bus routes they can take on a job they have a responsibility and real engagement with the community they walk out of there with skills to to get them into the community and be productive and then but I got an email this morning from Matt Buckler at the Erie High School and he shared with me that there was a student there Christian Palumbo and he scored a perfect score on the College Board AP research exam that exam I didn't know much about but the data is a little bit skewed in terms of they had 216 was there there the numbers that he gave me said there were 2.6 million people in the United States that took that exam 4.7 million in the world that

135took the exam 176 students scored perfect he was one of them so I just wanted to recognize that as quite an outstanding achievement all right thank you John very briefly I wanted to commend Greg and Tony and really all the financial staff both on the thoughtfulness and the systems approach to multi-year forecasting that we looked at at the study session that's work well done and you know it gives us great confidence as it should broader community I make an observation when you go to our PTO meetings parents aren't there to complain or or whatever they're there to support the school is just as such a strong sense of community and and when you meet with our principals or have lunch or coffee as I've done you have to be impressed with the caliber of these

136folks I mean just such high quality folks really as to use the term Paul mentioned looking at the both everything from the micro to the macro issues I mean they're terrific people and I appreciate that Joey and I took an opportunity to have coffee and welcome on behalf of the board Josh Atherton were very positive about the future of the foundation and and again I thought that day of excellence was really excellent so that's it for me all right well with that we'll move on then to consent items we have several 7.1 approval of terminations and leaves 7.2 staff appointments 7.3 approval of minutes for the January 10 2018 regular meeting the January 17 study session in the January 24 regular meeting 7.4 approval of purchase of network switches access points controller licenses and phones

1377.5 approval of selection and contract award construction manager general contractor for the district wide track resurfacing project 7.6 approval to accept the best grant funds for the Main Street renovation Main Street school renovation 7.7 approval of recommendation to hire an assistant superintendent of human resources 7.8 approval recommendation to hire the area assistant superintendent and 7.9 approval recommendation to hire an executive director for student support services did any board members wish to pull any of those items could we pull 7.6 for further discussion we can any anything else all right with that I will take a motion to approve 7.1 through 7.9 with the exception of 7.6 so moved by Joey second by John and Barb would you call for the vote mr. Aaron's I dr. Martyr yes miss Pierce I mrs. Raglan I miss Segrist

138I and mr. Smith yes thank you all right 7.6 Brian right so we've been working with CDE to develop well really requesting funds to the best program and this is for Main Street school and so we sat down with them and went through really an extensive master plan for the school and between that team we came up with about a 13 million dollar master plan felt like the district could only afford at this time about five million dollars and the the best program matches that to an extent here we identified 1.6 million dollar match and after this morning's meeting they came back and said actually we think we can do 2.3 million so I have to sign that agreement next week so I had to run with this particular document but but yeah that's the

139plan and so it will incorporate kind of a main entry to the school we're redoing the HVAC which needs it desperately and just some fixing up of that particular school all right is Main Street our oldest building or one of the oldest building it is not I think it was built in the 20s only a hundred hundred ninety years old yeah only yeah it sure is visible though and it's right on Main Street yeah yeah yeah I mean we're making some good headway on the school and truthfully I'm excited about it's actually the original high school isn't it it was I think Longmont High School did you go to the original Longmont High School? Yeah the original Longmont High School. I did not go there just so you know well shortly after it was built

140I did not I did not know I know people who did though okay yeah who did that but anyway it's a beautiful building and I know that you worked on the parking lot this past summer I don't know I'm gonna drive by it almost every single day I think the parking lot looks great the playground a couple years ago so I think I share everybody else's sentiments I couldn't be more excited yeah having spent some time in the building today I think it's really important that the quality of the facility ultimately mirror the quality of the programs that we carry out in that building and while the building is functional at this time it is in I wouldn't say desperate but it is in significant need of freshening up and then some major renovations that

141I think you have identified in the 13 million dollar plan so as I understand it we have in the current bond about plus the best grant maybe the ability to get halfway there yeah we're providing we get the grant seven four after today's meeting is is what it would end up being our five plus 2.4 from from the state and do we have longer term plans to progressively freshen and restore the building to something approximated in its previous glory yeah absolutely and I think my answer would be we in our construction group are constantly looking at how we can improve really all of our buildings but those buildings that are that that truthfully need some some assistance and so so today the additional seven million dollars we're gonna have to wait till the end of

142the bond to see how things unfold but that's our goal is to continue improving that great we're not gonna stop until it's done great yeah I mean I reflect on the fact that while we went for a 260 some million dollar bond we could have used 350 yeah all right but we make the most of what we that's exactly right yes all right so any other questions otherwise I'll ask for a motion to approve so moved by Barb take your pick and and three of us would you please call yeah that almost constitutes a quorum for approving it so would you please call the vote mr. Aaron's I dr. Margaret yes miss Pierce I mrs. Ragland I miss Segrist I and mr. Smith yes all right thank you all right action item eight point one

143recommendation to adopt a resolution authoring authorizing the sale of the district-owned land and there are a number of parcels that are part of this and Brian's gonna walk us through that I am and I put this together this afternoon really just to try to capture everything involved with this particular land sale and help you see why maybe some of our decisions to head in that direction and so first off on your slide is Thunder Valley K I just wanted to bring that to your attention the next is spark spark preschool and so the first the first piece of land that potentially we are selling is this ten point eight acres it is appraised at two point seven dollars per square foot basically one point two eight million is the final appraisal value and then I

144wrote in there the land only appraisal value is three hundred and fifty thousand dollars the point of that is this has ball fields on it and if somebody should come along that wants to buy ball fields the price would be two point or one I'm sorry one point two eight million dollars otherwise if somebody wants to build houses on it typically the land price would go for three hundred fifty thousand so today carbon Valley uses that site and and we do not so if I can continue areas ask are there any potential buyers that are all players is anyone willing to play ball with us yeah yeah there's truthfully it's pretty hard to sell a ball field for ball fields I guess that's what I'm trying to say and so we'll see how that unfolds

145area two is seven point eight acres it is undeveloped and it appraised at four hundred twenty thousand dollars and then finally area three there are ten residential lots and they appraised it twelve thousand dollars a lot of course hundred twenty thousand dollars so that is the sum of these twelve parcels and so this is the thousand foot circumference from the active oil well on the site which renders the majority of it inactive or or unusable for a school is what I should say and then the next piece is the floodplain which sits there and so as a school it is not necessarily a viable piece of property for us and so just that so this request is to allow us to put those pieces of property up for auction it would be handled through our

146purchasing department and it would be it would follow board policy which is a sealed bid I believe is how they plan to do it questions just to confirm we would have the board would it would come back to the board once the seal bids have been opened and a staff recommendation and we would ultimately approve the sale I can do is that is that I thought that was what I read in that I don't recall the board policy that way but it's okay it's in the it's in the agreement I think itself it's not board policy but it was in the written agreement for yeah yes we will bring it back my not yeah board reserves the right to reject any and all bids it receives if it chooses to pursue the sealed bid sales

147approach so that's part of the sales agreement so it does come back to us we'll bring it back yeah absolutely yeah good all right the important one there actually is the one with the ball fields on it and if somebody comes and offers this 1.3 we're in but we'll see yeah all right yeah I don't know all right very good well I'll take a motion to approve by Paula by Karen and bar would you please call for the vote mr. Aaron's hi dr. Martyr yes miss Pierce hi mrs. Ragland hi miss Segrist hi mr. Smith yes actually item 8.2 is recommendation to approve the contract increase to the architecture agreement for the 9 watt high renovation project right we have been working on the 9 watt high renovation project we hired Anderson Mason Dale to

148do a master plan for the school and I'd be honest with you I have a nice model that eventually I'll show you but I don't know it's kind of exciting to see how we're we're trying to maybe make the school a little more linear in the design you know if you go through there now it's a little wandering if you will and so it's kind of fun to see how we're cleaning that up so this is really just to complete the architectural contract which makes it a one point zero two million dollar contract with Anderson Mason Dale to complete the design work dick you asked me earlier perhaps what the construction costs were right at nine million dollars so that puts this this architect at 12% actually a little under 12% includes the master plan

149again it depends on the complications of the project and that's what we would expect for normal the normal percent for architectural fees based compared with the construction costs it's about ten percent or so yes we discussed that is correct and in fact I looked in the bond plan and I actually did program in 12% of the bond plan so yeah thank you I just it's helpful to have those those ballpark figures to measure you know expenditures against sort of industry standard you're used to looking at teacher salaries that's the problem everything else seems more expensive no actually I was thinking about my prior life where we had architectural and then construction costs so keep that in mind we'll talk about me next thanks all right any other questions all right otherwise then I'll ask for

150a motion to approve a point to so moved by John second by Karen I want would you please call the vote mr. Aaron's dr. Martyr yes miss Pierce I mrs. Ragland I miss Segrist I and mr. Smith yes thank you 8.3 recommendation to approve a contract increase to the architect agreement for mead high addition and renovation right and so this is a $36,000 increase to the contract to do some additional design work for us in the parking lot area so this is for we bring these back because they're over a million dollars and that's why they come back my my point here this project was 12 million dollars just a little bit over so the math on that it's a million dollar contract so they're running what about eight eight and a half there you

151go so the complexity of this one is easier it's a big portion of it was a brand-new building brand-new wing whereas Niwata High School all the renovation happens inside of that building so so hence the difference thank you yeah good explanation all right any questions otherwise I'll ask for a motion to approve 8.3 so moved by Paula second by dick Barb please call for the vote mr. errands I dr. martyr yes miss Pierce I Mrs. Ragland I miss Segrist I and mr. Smith yes all right 8.4 recommendation to approve the selection and contract award and contract award for construction manager general contractor for Lyons Elementary addition and renovation right so we've been working with Lyons Elementary and their design advisory group which is parents teachers and of course staff there when we originally built the

152bond plan we talked about adding a new classroom as well as fixing the art area and so this contractor which is a Dawson and Peterson has developed the construction piece of this and this will authorize them to move forward to build this particular project for us so it includes a new classroom and some renovations or major renovations actually to the art area which makes it like it like an art room if I can say that yeah pretty small yeah has the design work been done it is in process like 90% complete and that's why we can take this any other questions all right then I'll ask for a motion to approve 8.4 so moved by Joey second by Paula Barb mr. errands by dr. martyr yes miss Pierce I Mrs. Ragland I miss Segrist I

153and mr. Smith yes thank you very much all right discussion items other than Chloe Kim's and Sean White's performance in the half pipe are there any other discussion items for the board this evening right so Saturday evening right a couple of events coming up Saturday evening Carbon Valley dinner hope you all can make it next Wednesday is the study session and I want to point out next Thursday I believe the 22nd is a performance by the long peak Long's Peak band playing original big part and Westview and Westview playing an original piece of music by McCall McCall yeah at Longman High School admissions free and it should be a really neat event so hopefully we'll see you there and with that I'll ask for a motion to adjourn well we go also say Michaela Schifrin

154is running later tonight oh is that right she is well there you go finally after two days of being standing by the gate yeah Amory's not here she always makes that motion does that mean we have to stay sorry so moved by Karen by John all in favor I